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Indeed. For a long time I’ve said “the RRA is a good thing, but it causes a lot of short-term pain, the losers will remember and the winners will not thank you”, but I assumed no party would go into the next election on a “vote for us and you can’t have a pet in your home again”.

I can't remember a time when every party was trying so hard not to win the next election.

Reform says Farage treats all journalists equally. In Oct he called Mishal Husain 'love.' In Novhe told Camilla Tominey she was playing a 'silly little game.' This month he told Anna Gross to 'write some silly story.' Three women, three put-downs, zero answers (h/t Populist Decoder - Rootcause).

Our focus on elite depravity shouldn’t distract us from the extent of mass public-level moral decay. There’s an army of little Kristi Noems out there.

It's so baffling as a UK adjacent outsider.

Nice things are nice! Small luxuries are lovely!

By all means let the fact that not everyone can afford that shape your politics or charity, but cringe or poverty as a voluntary performative aesthetic doesn't actually help the poor.

They noticed!

Army veteran sues federal government after ICE detains him for three days US citizen George Retes was held without access to family, an attorney, or information about the charges against him

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Which Treks are you doing? I have mixed and complicated feelings about Academy so far.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

I would love to see an E-Wing in one of these shots.

Grim. One can only imagine what passes for ‘banter’ or ‘locker room talk’ when these ghouls converse in private.

I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

You think Morgan McSweeney was 'socially conservative'? Yeah, he was in some ways. But you ain't seen even 10% of that yet. 👇

Once again--Trump is weakening Ukrainian air defense to help Putin kill Ukrainian civilians and damage Ukrainian infrastructure.

How many times does this need to be said before people will get it.

A liking for exotic coffee isn't a class signal in the UK. However, *thinking* that working class people prefer plain boring coffee is a very strong indicator that the speaker is upper middle class. No-one who actually has working class friends could be so deluded.

This is absolutely true, and why, in times past places just got abandoned.

The other thing I'd add is that where an answer does exist, its often "high speed travel to big city and lots of housing", and guess what people also don't want.

It’s now quite hard to sustain that ex-mining, pro-Brexit, Labour-to-Reform swing seats (via levelling up) have been overlooked or forgotten by Westminster. They’ve been the axis of politics 15 years. Why it hasn’t worked is the question

If you want to know more about James Orr’s many strange and sinister views, we did a mini profile at the top of our last live show

open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...

A thing we've forgotten over the past 18 months but is becoming increasingly clear again: Nigel Farage is quite bad at politics

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

The Evolution of Russian and Chinese Air Power Threats Russian and, particularly, Chinese capabilities now pose greater threats to Western air power than in 2020.

Russian forces pose a greater, albeit better understood threat to Western air capabilities than pre-2022, and Chinese counter-air capabilities are on another level entirely. Long read by me on the key changes to track since 2020: www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

It's galling to contemplate but I really think you have to admit that Musk buying X was an unqualified victory. It can't be exaggerated just how much prominent journalists, pundits, business type, etc. mistake the vibe on X for "how the country is feeling."

One of the most bizarre things you'll see on a policy level in London is watching influential British figures flaunting myths of UK geopolitical power to EU or US counterparts that are in reality falling apart due to lack of funding and focus

Landfill polling, I'm afraid.

One thing I appreciate from Strange New Worlds is that it finally confronted the Eugenics Wars/World War III shit by saying "Look, fuckers got time travel, wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey go fuck yourself."

There's no end to the irony of the "fans" complaining about canon in newer Star Trek because if you know anything about the series you know that shit was always stitched together with duct tape and prayer.

Did you know the Klingon Bird-of-Prey in Star Trek III was originally intended to be Romulan?

Compare Chinese state media (below) with US state media (Fox et al, with increasing bleed-over into many "legit" news operations.)

We just released our first US midterms polling of 2026. The main story is a familiar one, that the cost of living is again set to punish the incumbent.

Since 2024, the Democrats' vote margin has increased by double digits with those most concerned about food/gas prices.